High Tech Teaching in a Low Tech Classroom - Suggestions to best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology - read the article!
Backchanneling Sites:Backchannelingis the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks.
Pic Lits Advanced Lesson Plans - http://www.piclits.com/educators.aspx - Using the outlines on this page, teachers can help students read poems for and write poems with the poetic devices defined, illustrated, and explained within
start typing....
Storybird - http://storybird.com/ - A new literacy tool for a new generation
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback. Sign up today for a free Class account!
No student emails required
Sign up and manage your students without requiring email addresses. Reset passwords when kids forget theirs.
Storybird has no chat function or personal profiles and administrators moderate all public books and comments.
Start as many classes as you need and manage them from one simple dashboard. Tailor Class privacy settings, comments, and discussion threads to suit your students requirements or maturity.
Create thematic assignments within seconds to support your lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface.
ZooBurst - http://www.zooburst.com/index.php
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Story Jumper- http://www.storyjumper.com/ StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids. Publish your own children's book.
Screencasting - Screencasting is a quick and easy to use tool that can help you and your students create slick demonstration tutorials in any subject area, using any computer application. The software allows you to record a movie of what you are doing on a computer. Along with your movie, you can record voice-over audio to provide a series of instructions (from November Learning - see attachment) screencasting.pdf
http://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U Link to another interesting video about change in education from RSA Animate...Sir Ken Robbinson, "Changing Education Paradigms".
21st Century Skills Maps – The Partnership for 21st Century skills has forged alliances with key national organizations that represent the core academic subjects, including Social Studies, English, Math, Science, Geography and the Arts. As a result of these collaborations, the Partnership has developed these maps to illustrate the intersection between 21st Century Skills and the various content areas. The maps will enable educators, administrators and policymakers to gain concrete examples of how 21st Century Skills can be integrated into subjects.
- Global Competency Matrices by Content Area - See pgs. 101-108
Epals- http://www.epals.com/ - ePals is the leading provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally.
Flat Classroom Project - http://www.flatclassroomproject.org/ - The Flat Classroom™ Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create students who are competitive and globally-minded
Connect All Schools - Teachers and students all across the United States are invited to take part in the new Connect All Schools Initiative, which aims to connect EVERY school in the United States with the world by 2016. Through the Connect All Schools interactive website, schools share stories using text, photo and video about how they are currently connecting their students to the rest of the world through such activities as student and teacher exchanges, global issues curricula, video-conferences and "Exchanges 2.0,” the use of new media and communications technologies to expand, extend, and deepen international cross-cultural exchanges. http://www.connectallschools.org/
Global Broadcasting with Ustream - http://www.ustream.tv - A web-based tool that allows anyone to create shows that can be broadcasted live and archived, or simply taped off air to be presented to an audience at a later time. These broadcasts can be published for anyone to view or can be password protected for a private audience (from November Learning - see attachment)global broadcasting ustream.pdf
Taking It Global for Educators- http://www.tigweb.org/tiged/resources.htmlTIGed is a community of globally-minded educators interested in empowering their students to think and act as world citizens, a collection of resources that facilitate the inclusion of global perspectives in the classroom, and a virtual classroom that allows students to use collaborative technology in order to connecthttp://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.htmlwith people from around the world and learn about global issues.
Web 20.11 Discovery Ed Tools and Trends- http://web2011.discoveryeducation.com/- As our students' become more entrenched in technology, we need tools that can help us keep up with the ever-changing online landscape. Simple new tools make it easier than ever to plug in. This link has presentation tools, video tools, mobile tools, community tools, internet safety links, and media literacy.
My DE (once logged in) "on this day" drop down menu to explore other content area, view calendar for a particular day with preloaded videos and resources to be used in the classroom
Keyword Search
Sound effects
infer what the sound is and write about it
use in poetry
Audio
do a broad search and then on left narrow the search
related materials for some searched
JFK speech transcript use Wordle or WordSift www.wordsift.com similar to Wordle but the words are hyper linked and will take you to Google and the Visual Thesaurus
Images
most popular images, use for writing prompts
zoom in
guess what this is a picture of?? Write about your thoughts, use is during science lessons, etc...
shark picture- count the shark's teeth for younger audiences
Write about what is happening in this picture, how was the person feeling, what's going on during this time.
Games- multiplication, fractions, skill builders in different content areas
Songs
download songs on iTunes
listen and write out words
act out lyrics
search Lodge McCammon songs- print out lyrics, teacher's guides
use Wordle to paste lyrics to generate a word cloud- helpful for analyzing text, presents the "big picture", can be used to help explain words they do or don't know
Advanced Search- search for publishers, copyright dates, languages
Curriculum Search
Common Core
drills down to standard
narrow results
"Great Book" series
Discovery Ed Atlas maps search- "fly" to a particular country to build background knowledge before a new lesson or assignment
Citation tab- cite sources
My Builder Tools- search for pre-built assigments, quizzes, and writing prompts
Poll Everywhere: http://www.polleverywhere.com/- Poll Everywhere replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere.
Kidblog:http://kidblog.org/home.php-Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. Set up your class with no student email addresses.
R - Read the URL (Domain name, extension, personal page?)
E - Examine the Content (Useful info, resources/links, last update, accuracy, contradictions, history?)
A - Ask about the Author or Website Owner (site ownership or publisher?)
L - Look at the Links (URLs of forward links, change in domain names, biased information, external links?)
Below are a set of websites that can be used with students of varied ages. Use the REAL strategy to learn more about them. 1. All About Explorers:http://www.allaboutexplorers.com
If you teach anything about exploration, this site is a must. It’s smart, slick and cleverly done, plus has a host of great activities.
2. California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge:http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California? Use this fun site to help students separate fact from fiction on the web.
3. Dihydrogen Monoxide:http://www.dhmo.org
Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students. Have them click through the forward links on the site. Does the web site reference any other authors?
5. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men:http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
A fun site to use when teaching kids how to validate web resources. Science teachers take note! This site pokes fun at the scientific method.
6. Martin Luther King:http://www.martinlutherking.org
This seemingly innocent web site address calls for the abolition of Martin Luther King Day and promotes White Pride. Content is inappropriate for all ages. 7. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus:http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
Does the Octopus really exist? A great site to use with all ages. Have students click through the links and read web addresses carefully.
http://www.easywhois.com - easyWhois tells you the dates the site was created, specific contact names and addresses at which the organization is based. A helpful tool to research website owner information and to assist with determining the quality of information on the website.
Skype An Author Network - http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/ - The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians with a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits.
Skype in the Classroom - http://education.skype.com/- Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It’s a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. This is a global initiative that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms
Connect All Schools - Teachers and students all across the United States are invited to take part in the new Connect All Schools Initiative, which aims to connect EVERY school in the United States with the world by 2016. Through the Connect All Schools interactive website, schools share stories using text, photo and video about how they are currently connecting their students to the rest of the world through such activities as student and teacher exchanges, global issues curricula, video-conferences and "Exchanges 2.0,” the use of new media and communications technologies to expand, extend, and deepen international cross-cultural exchanges. http://www.connectallschools.org/
Google for Educators: http://www.google.com/educators/tools.htmlAt Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge.
Google SketchUp- http://sketchup.google.com/ Redecorate your living room. Invent a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. There's no limit to what you can create with SketchUp.\
Google Custom Search - http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ - Provides anyone with a google account the ability to build a search engine targeting his/her own collection of sites. This search engine can be shared by embeddding into a blog or wiki (from November Learning - see attachment)
Google News Timeline- http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ is a web application that organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
Visual Thesaurus: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually.
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends
Tagxedo - http://www.tagxedo.com/__Tagxedo__turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.
Word Sift- http://www.wordsift.com/ WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text into WordSift and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture! The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators. We have also integrated it with a few other functions, such as visualization of word thesaurus relationships (incorporating the amazing Visual Thesaurus® that we highly recommend in its own right) and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
VoiceThread- http://voicethread.com/ - A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Sharea VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
Thinkfinity- www.thinkfinity.orgPartnering with the most trusted names in education to bring you teaching and learning materials, as well as a community excited about education, just like you are.
Intel Project Based Design - http://www97.intel.com/en/ProjectDesign\
Project-based approaches engage students in deeper content area knowledge and develop 21st century skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Magic Studio-http://www.magicstudio.com/ interactive learning resources from teachers, publishers, museums, and archives
The Power of Story - http://www.pbs.org/thewar/edu_power_of_story.htmThe documentary process provides an excellent model for engaging students in seeking out and understanding history in their own communities while using the technologies that are part and parcel of their lives. The Power of Storyis a how-to guide to creating video histories of World War II witnesses so that students will better understand the value of recording individual histories — of one generation talking to another — and will seize the opportunity to tell stories of their communities and of individuals who might otherwise be overlooked. The guide can easily be adapted for classroom use.
Photo Peach-http://photopeach.com/ similar to Photo Story, The idea is to help you tell better stories online using photos. With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further.
SnagFilms - http://www.snagfilms.com/films/- was created in 2008 to address the bottleneck in distribution for quality documentaries that left many great films unable to reach their potential audience or to provide a viable financial return. Now with more than 1,800 documentaries available for audiences to stream online for free, SnagFilms has become an important distribution channel for individual filmmakers frozen out of traditional distribution or racing to get a topical title before the public quickly, as well as established media companies with deep libraries of documentary films.
Keerpoof -http://www.kerpoof.com/-The Kerpoof website is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. What is Kerpoof? The answer to that is not so simple. Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug Tell a story Make a drawing, Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made
Educationally Relevant Videos:
WatchKnow- http://www.watchknow.org/- Free educational videos delivered over the Internet. Viewed any time, from anywhere. WatchKnow has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. Our Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. We have had a tremendously positive response from educators to the website. If we continue to work together, we can create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the world.
NeoKiz- http://www.neok12.com/ Educational Videos, Lessons and Games for K-12 School Kids
Zamzar- http://www.zamzar.com/ allows you to convert YouTube videos (use wmv for PC and mov or mp4 for Mac)- can take 15 minutes to 24 hours until you get the email with the link. Can't download a html site
Keepvid- http://keepvid.com/can't download a html site- that takes you to the site not the videos
Russell Stannard is a principal teaching fellow at Warwick University. He teachers in the Applied Linguistics department where he teaches on the MA in TESOL with specialisation in Multimedia and ICT. This website provides excellent video tutorials on how to use a variety of technology tools. Some resources target the ESL classroom, but most are applicable to all content areas.
Animoto for Educators- http://animoto.com/education- Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, the perfect tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life.
Fake Wall- http://www.myfakewall.com/- With Myfakewall.com you can easily create fake profile pages just for fun. This fake facebook wall generator allows you to create a funny profile to entertain your friends
Noteflight: www.noteflight.com Noteflight® is an online music writing application that lets you create, view, print and hear music notation with professional quality, right in your web browser. Work on a score from any computer on the Internet, share with other users, or embed into your own pages.
This video that explains Web 2.0 and shows some of the tools that allow students to communicate, create, collaborate, compose and contribute.. http://vimeo.com/23792729
"I love that Teaching Idea" http://ilovethatteachingidea.com/ I Love That Teaching Idea! was founded in 1998 by two elementary school teachers. The site represents the vision of the founders, which is to provide elementary school teachers creative, practical and effective ideas and techniques to enhance their enjoyment and performance in the classroom.
Create Your Own Website/Digital Portfolio - http://pen.io/
AudioPalThanks to AudioPal, anyone with a personal website or blog can easily add audio to their site. Engage your visitors by creating an instantly interactive website using AudioPal. Just create your message and embed your flash audio player. http://www.audiopal.com/
Storify http://storify.com/ build assessments that can use current media thru drag and drop
SumDog take a multiple choice assessment and puts it into a game that students can play with other students from their class and across the web. They get to choose the game format. http://www.sumdog.com/
All You Need To Know About iPads in the Classroom On this page is the presentation was given by Kathy Schrock at ISTE 2013 along with other great information that she has compiled. http://www.ipads4teaching.net/presentation-resources.html
Do It Yourself Professional Technology Development Resources Whether you're a tech whiz or newbie, here are some helpful resources from Edutopia to help you reach your edtech goals this summer. There is something here for everyone! http://bit.ly/12oEZ3H
Math Nook-http://www.brainnook.com/Educators.php BrainNook is a new online game that helps kids develop Math and English skills while exploring the Earth and playing safely with others.
Ten Marks- http://www.tenmarks.com/tmother/teacher-index TenMarks is a free, web-based math practice program that engages students and delivers measurable results. Teachers can target every students needs with engaging, standards-based math exercises. Students work at their own pace on assigned practice, and use hints and video lessons to learn and master concepts.
Thank you so much for your input these last two days. We have created a discussion tab on this wiki for you to share your trials and tribulations with all of us. Don't hesitate to contact Christina or Kathy if you have any questions.
High Tech Teaching in a Low Tech Classroom - Suggestions to best use limited resources to support learning and familiarize students with technology - read the article!
Curriculum 21 Resources:
Digital Storytelling:
PicLits - inspired picture writing - http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx
Storybird - http://storybird.com/ - A new literacy tool for a new generation
Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback. Sign up today for a free Class account!
No student emails required
- Sign up and manage your students without requiring email addresses. Reset passwords when kids forget theirs.
- Start as many classes as you need and manage them from one simple dashboard. Tailor Class privacy settings, comments, and discussion threads to suit your students requirements or maturity.
- Create thematic assignments within seconds to support your lesson plans. Assign privacy settings, turn Spellcheck on or off, and issue due dates. All using an intuitive interface.
ZooBurst - http://www.zooburst.com/index.phpStorybird has no chat function or personal profiles and administrators moderate all public books and comments.
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books.
Story Jumper- http://www.storyjumper.com/ StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids. Publish your own children's book.
Screencasting - Screencasting is a quick and easy to use tool that can help you and your students create slick demonstration tutorials in any subject area, using any computer application. The software allows you to record a movie of what you are doing on a computer. Along with your movie, you can record voice-over audio to provide a series of instructions (from November Learning - see attachment)
Heidi Hayes-Jacobs Curriculum 21 Video
Backchanneling Export
21st Century Skills Maps –
The Partnership for 21st Century skills has forged alliances with key national organizations that represent the core academic subjects, including Social Studies, English, Math, Science, Geography and the Arts. As a result of these collaborations, the Partnership has developed these maps to illustrate the intersection between 21st Century Skills and the various content areas. The maps will enable educators, administrators and policymakers to gain concrete examples of how 21st Century Skills can be integrated into subjects.
i. Arts Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/P21_arts_map_final.pdf
ii. Geography Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/21stcskillsmap_geog.pdf
iii. Science Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/21stcskillsmap_science.pdf
iv. Social Studies Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/ss_map_11_12_08.pdf
v. English Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/21st_century_skills_english_map.pdf
vi. World Languages Map - http://www.p21.org/documents/Skills%20Map/p21_worldlanguagesmap.pdf
ICT Literacy Maps - Subject-based 21st century tools for learning and thinking, and sample student outcomes in key skill areas.
Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
http://www.p21.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=120
Environmental literacy
K12 Online Conference - http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=610 - Moral imperative to change
GLOBAL AWARENESS & RESOURCES
Discovery Education Streaming: http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
PBS Learning Media- http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/ a collection of 16,000+ resources by subject area.
Day 1 Exit Ticket:
http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/rAERvjPIEj
Day 2- Curriculum 21
21st Century Project Exemplars - Kutztown Area High School
Alan November Resource: http://novemberlearning.com/team/alan-november/
INFORMATION LITERACY RESOURCES -
Below are a set of websites that can be used with students of varied ages. Use the REAL strategy to learn more about them.
1. All About Explorers:http://www.allaboutexplorers.com
If you teach anything about exploration, this site is a must. It’s smart, slick and cleverly done, plus has a host of great activities.
2. California’s Velcro Crop Under Challenge:http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
Did you know about the Velcro shortage in California? Use this fun site to help students separate fact from fiction on the web.
3. Dihydrogen Monoxide:http://www.dhmo.org
Who knew water could be so hazardous. A good site to use with middle school students. Have them click through the forward links on the site. Does the web site reference any other authors?
4. Dog Island Free Forever:http://www.thedogisland.com
A puppy dog paradise. Great site for all ages.
5. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men:http://improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html
A fun site to use when teaching kids how to validate web resources. Science teachers take note! This site pokes fun at the scientific method.
6. Martin Luther King:http://www.martinlutherking.org
This seemingly innocent web site address calls for the abolition of Martin Luther King Day and promotes White Pride. Content is inappropriate for all ages.
7. The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus:http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus.html
Does the Octopus really exist? A great site to use with all ages. Have students click through the links and read web addresses carefully.
8. Victorian Robots: http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
A great site for all ages. It has even stumped historians. Have students truncate the web address down to http://www.bigredhair.com. This will give them some insight into the validity of this site.
Google more: http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
ADDITIONAL TOOLS/RESOURCES:
Project-based approaches engage students in deeper content area knowledge and develop 21st century skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
http://www.audiopal.com/
All You Need To Know About iPads in the Classroom On this page is the presentation was given by Kathy Schrock at ISTE 2013 along with other great information that she has compiled.
http://www.ipads4teaching.net/presentation-resources.html
Do It Yourself Professional Technology Development Resources
Whether you're a tech whiz or newbie, here are some helpful resources from Edutopia to help you reach your edtech goals this summer. There is something here for everyone!
http://bit.ly/12oEZ3H
Video on Common Core Standards
Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards from CGCS Video Maker on Vimeo.
Digital Toolkit for Common Core and Essential Standards
http://informationandtechnologytoolkit.weebly.com/web-resources-a-z.html
Math Resources:
Day 2 Exit Ticket- http://www.cattysd.org/forms.cfm?myForm=18448
Thank you so much for your input these last two days. We have created a discussion tab on this wiki for you to share your trials and tribulations with all of us. Don't hesitate to contact Christina or Kathy if you have any questions.